A cup, that is, a toilet, and my apologies in advance for the audacity, illustrate these lines (below) with the confidence that, assuming the irony, you will enjoy reading where you please. What does it matter as long as you read us and see, as long as art inspires your plans, even the art of the oft-maligned toilet (Duchamp, thanks for being the first to flush the toilet.)
La Felicita, Paris.
And that's what these pages are about, stories of places and people that, in one way or another, they push us to travel in pursuit of beauty.
Ai Weiwei is the sublimated example, because how not to show his home in the Portuguese countryside when no one had done it before. How not to discover his refuge and try to understand why there, why now and why he, one of the great artists of the 21st century.
The great interview – obrigado, Catarina – makes you want to run to Alentejo more than the best of the guides, in the same way as the photographs of Manoir de la Moissie –a Bloomsbury residence only in 2021 and in the Dordogne– become an urgent object of desire thanks to the magical tremor of Pablo Curto and Alba Galocha.
Cover of No. 148 of Condé Nast Traveler.
We also talk here about cenacles of yesterday and today, so that the nostalgia of those who once met and arranged worlds give us momentum on the road to an immediate future –3, 2, 1, now– more sensitive, more honest. More than getting together and doing things of skin, that Zoom or that boom.
It is what a new generation of Spanish artists wants to invest in because and you know, we think the best souvenir priceless; while others, like the interior designer Laura Gonzalez, reinvent hotels and restaurants in Paris so that we do not lack reasons.
That to Paris you always have to return. Like to Florence, where this time we landed like bloodhounds, sniffing every corner and extracting a tasting note that you will see. What will you smell?
I'll even tell you that We have visited Gijón through the eyes of Rohmer, and Marseille without knowing what we were painting there, and Bahía Bustamante like that wild canvas that it is. And finally, this time we have moved for the love of art. Now you.